Employment Law

Defendant railroad wins summary judgment on plaintiff’s claim under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act, as plaintiff’s report of a work-related shoulder injury occurred more than three years after he first sought medical treatment for an injury that allegedly occurred when ...

An Alexandria U.S. District Court denies employer’s motion to dismiss plaintiff’s suit alleging she has worked in excess of 60 hours per week but did not receive overtime pay; employer’s response that plaintiff is exempt as an “agricultural laborer” is ...

Plaintiff, manager of the Learning Resources Center at Strayer University, may try her claim for failure to accommodate in violation of the ADA based on employer’s alleged denial of her request for a shift change from night to day shift ...

A teenage cashier can sue defendant Kroger for sexual harassment based on its alleged failure to respond to her persistent complaints about a coworker who made sexual comments and touched her, and for retaliation, for work assignments she received after ...

An Alexandria U.S. District Court denies employer’s motion to dismiss plaintiff’s suit alleging she has worked in excess of 60 hours per week but did not receive overtime pay, as employer’s response that plaintiff is exempt as an “agricultural laborer” ...

A circuit court did not err in dismissing the city of Danville’s complaint to recover sick leave pay from a city firefighter who used his remaining 6,000 hours of sick leave to obtain an extra year of service credit when ...

A carpenter who lost his footing and fell off a ladder while installing soffit suffered a work-related accident and the Court of Appeals affirms the commission’s award of medical benefits for claimant’s injuries to his left ankle and right heel. ...

A medical provider of health services to an injured employee is not barred from collecting the $13,449 it billed by a deep discount claimed by the employer through a prior contract the employer’s claims management service had with another entity, ...

A female server at defendant Red Robin restaurant may try her Title VII hostile work environment claim alleging a male server made persistent sexual comments about her and other female employees and touched her against her will; the Roanoke U.S. ...

A Lynchburg U.S. District Court refuses to dismiss an African-American male plaintiff’s Title VII race discrimination suit on the ground that his initial EEOC charge – that he was fired for a workplace altercation while a white employee was not ...